The Augsburg Eagle

This is an extensively revised edition of this standard work on one of the most famous aircraft of all time. It is a fully accurate and comprehensive coverage of the background, development, and technical evolution of what is probably the most famous single-seat fighter ever developed troughout the history of military aviation - a fighter that was built in larger numbers than any aircraft in its category before or since and outlived in service virtually all its principal opponents of the Second World War. This books carries the story of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 from the Augsburg-Haunstetten drawing boards of 1933, through action in the Spanish Civil War.